Design research model for territories: local resources for social inclusion

Abstract: To Design culture is nowadays required to provide a strategic contribution to elaborate for territories – and in support of local communities - design actions aimed to put in relation natural and artificial resources, products and services. A target that, in order to be concretely sustainable, must be pursued by connecting the interdisciplinary nature of scientific knowledge to the typicality of local heritage, whether tangible or intangible. Only in this way it is possible to proceed towards social inclusion, considered as an inalienable condition, and the ultimate goal of every possible project for the territory.